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CONVICTED drug kingpin Jamie William Williamson will have his appeal against conviction and sentence heard before Queensland’s Court of Appeal tomorrow.

Williamson, 30, was sentenced to 13 years jail after being found guilty at the conclusion of a Supreme Court trial in Brisbane in March of trafficking and possessing methylamphetamine, ecstasy and cannabis.

The trial heard Williamson had run his business in Toowoomba selling drugs to wholesalers and street-level users between 2004 and 2006.

He was arrested in December 2006, upon his return to Toowoomba from a luxury holiday in Hawaii.

While he was away on the trip, police had raided two Wilsonton sheds rented by Williamson which were found to contain eight kilograms of cannabis, thousands of ecstasy tablets, more than two kilograms of crystallised methylamphetamine, a range of firearms and more than $570,000 cash.

Nine further charges relating to the drug case were mentioned before Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday including one count of money laundering.

Williamson’s solicitor Adam Guest asked the court to adjourn those matters until after the Court of Appeal judgment was handed down, expected in six to eight weeks time.

Magistrate Bruce Schemioneck adjourned all matters for mention in the same court on November 16.